RAOC Gazette - page 138
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| Full title | RAOC Gazette |
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| Publication date | 1977 |
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| Early date | 1977 |
| Late date | 1977 |
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Lieutenant Colonel D. A. R, Clark has since written to me giving the following interesting postscript, / travelled up from Singapore to Hong Kong in 1959 with Captain Eddie Malekin, the third man mentioned in the article who was captured by the Japanese. He was revisiting Hong Kong for the first time since his removal from the Colony, by the Japanese as a prisoner, in 1942. / well remember that, on the Sunday after our arrival, we went together to the Sai Wan Military Cemetery to visit the graves of some of Eddie's friends and to find the names of Sub-Conductor Hearn and the other soldier in the slit-trench with Eddie on that day in December 1941, Eddie Malekin was very moved during our visit and spoke with considerable pride of his two friends who, I under- stood, had fought very bravely before meeting their death. The enclosed photograph, taken on that day, shows Eddie Malekin standing by the memorial to the British Soldiers for whom there is no known grave. It was so very tragic that on the next day, after having survived the invasion of Hong Kong, had two men in his trench killed on either side of him, suffered as prisoner of the Japanese in Hong Kong and been transferred to Japan be- cause, to quote his own words, he was a 'naughty boy'; to be killed in a car accident on his return to revisit the scene of his earlier escape. ARMY CHAMPION INDIVIDUAL PISTOL SHOT THATS the award that went to W02 Kieth Watson this year. Kieth v who comes from Bourne in Lincolnshire, is married with four children. He has been pistol shooting competitively for three years, At Bisley he was twelfth after the first stage, but in the second and final stage, pulled back to win by four clear points. W02 Watson is a member of 6 Field Force Ordnance Com- pany. 6 FIELD FORCE ORDNANCEjCOMPANY IEADQUARTER! .Jsitl y.:« : ±x#x : -yi:}t- - ^ ^.? r-J^- y : K : £...• • ••• • mmm* mm: W02 Warson being congratulated FULL BORE by C S M Applevard. SHOOTING A TEAM from the Combat Supplies Battalion recently entered the Fifteenth International Shooting Competition at Rendsburg Nr Keil. A total of one hundred and two teams took part. The Battalion team of Lieutenant Williams, Sergeant Hooper, Corporal Briley and Private Taylor were placed eighth overall and were the second placed military team. Competitors from Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Den- mark, the United States and Great Britain took pan and entries included clubs, military police and customs teams. ::;$;. m*™£>;m*-: Captain Malekin was buried with full Military Honours in the Happy Valley Cemetery in Hong Kong with Major Bernard Cavendish and Captain Tim Killick who were also killed in the accident. DGOS'S FITNESS CHALLENGE TO THE OVER FORTIES THE first successful challenger is Major T. E. Seabrook (aged forty seven years), who completed the distance on a running track at Episkopi, Cyprus, in twenty minutes and one second— four minutes nineteen seconds inside the time limit for his age. WOl M. Hudson (aged forty years), of RAOC Planning and Work Study Unit BAOR, completed the distance, on a road run, in exactly twenty two minutes. This is one minute and ten seconds inside the time limit for his age. Captain J. H. Tilling (aged fifty years) of 16 Battalion completed the distance, on a road run on 12th July in seventeen minutes seventeen seconds, and this is seven minutes and thirty three seconds inside the time limit for his age. Major L. C. Fullilove (aged forty one years) of Head- quarters Eastern District completed the distance, on a running track, on 20th July in twenty one minutes fifty seven seconds; this is one minute and twenty three seconds inside the time limit for his age. A PHILATELIC EXHIBITION MAJOR GENERAL SIR LEONARD ATKINSON, has agreed to exhibit selections from his outstanding award-winning col- lection of Great Britain stamps in Stanley Gibbons' famous Romano House Gallery at 399 Strand, London, WC2, during the whole of September. It is a considerable honour to be invited to exhibit at Gibbons and Sir Leonard will be showing his stamps where such famous collectors as the Keeper of The Queen's collection have exhibited. His exhibition will be open to the public on weekdays. Sir Leonard was commissioned in The Royal Army Ord- nance Corps in 1936 and transferred to The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on its formation in 1942. He retired as the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1966. His philatelic career started at the age of: ten and he began specialising in the stamps of Great Britain at fifteen and has collected nothing else for more than fifty years. His GB collection is a general one covering the period from 1840 to the end of the sterling era. There are, however, areas of deep specialisation, notably in the early Line Engraved stamps, the Embossed issues and the stamps of King George V, especially the high values, the well-known * sea horses.* This latter group is generally regarded as one of the larger known collections of these issues. — 102 — |
| Book number | R0246 |